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Happy Father's Day! Today, we celebrate the incredible fathers who have shaped our lives with their wisdom, strength, and unwavering love. Whether they're guiding us from the past or standing by our sides today, their impact is everlasting. Here's to the dads who make the world a better place every day. ❤️

Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing moms out there! 🌷💕 You deserve to be celebrated today and every day for all that you do. Thank you for your love, guidance, and endless support.

Wishing you an egg-traordinary Easter! 🐇🍫

Wishing you a day of love, happiness, and all the candy hearts you can eat. Happy Valentine's Day! 💌💘

🥂 Here's to 2024 - a fresh start, new beginnings, and endless possibilities! May this year bring you happiness, health, and prosperity. Happy New Year! 🌟✨

From our family to yours, Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🦌🛷🎁

Today, we stand in silent tribute to our fallen heroes and veterans who have served with unwavering courage.

Kickstart your day with these nutritious and simple high-fibre, anti-inflammatory breakfast recipes 🥑. With a delightful mix of savoury toasts 🍞 and scrumptious smoothies 🥤, these meals are not only a treat to your taste buds but also provide at least 6 grams of fibre per serving to keep you and your gut feeling great 🤗.

Indulge in a blend of fibre-rich beans and whole grains 🌾 combined with anti-inflammatory foods like eggs 🥚, kale 🥬, and berries 🍓. These recipes are crafted to help alleviate symptoms of chronic inflammation, such as mental fog, joint pain, and muscle aches 🛌.

The best part? All these delicious recipes are designed to be ready in 20 minutes or less ⏲️, making them a perfect choice for busy mornings. Dive into a variety of recipes like the Egg, Spinach & Cheddar Breakfast Sandwich 🥪, Spinach-Avocado Smoothie 🌿, and many more to begin your day on a healthful note 🌞.

12 Easy High-Fiber, Anti-Inflammatory Breakfast Recipes These flavorful and nutritious 20-minute breakfast recipes are high in fiber and packed with anti-inflammatory ingredients.

🍂 November is ! 🍂

Did you know? Falls are the leading cause of hospitalization due to injury among older adults. It's crucial that we come together to fall hazards and create safer environments, especially for our senior community who are at a higher risk. 🛑👵👴

👉 Some preventive measures include regular vision checks, medication reviews, and maintaining a safe living environment by removing tripping hazards and improving lighting.

Let's spread the word and take actionable steps towards preventing falls, not just in November, but all year round! 🔄

Don’t let the retirement living search spook you! 👻 With Supporting Seniors, discover a place where every day is a treat! 🍬🏡

Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇

Wishing everyone a day filled with poutine, butter tarts, and all things uniquely Canadian! Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

Moms, you are the heart of our homes and communities. ❤️ Wishing you a Happy Mother's Day filled with all the love and happiness you deserve.

A new study found that doing just under 10 minutes of moderate to vigorous exertion each day improved study participants' working memory but had its biggest impact on executive processes such as planning and organization. While the cognitive improvement was modest, as additional time was spent doing the more energetic workout, the benefits grew.

One type of physical activity protects the brain more than others, study find A new study found that doing just under 10 minutes of moderate to vigorous exertion each day improved study participants' working memory but had its biggest impact on executive processes such as planning and organization.

We may not be able to prevent every fall, but we can learn how to prevent injury when we do take a tumble. What a great idea!

Judo courses in Quebec are teaching older people how to fall safely | CBC News A judo school in Témiscamingue, Que., is the latest to offer courses for 60-plus on how to prevent injury when taking a tumble.

A friendly reminder to stay hydrated!🚰 And on the subject of friendly reminders, it can be helpful to provide a gentle nudge to our older loved ones because our sense of thirst diminishes with age.

Staying hydrated is linked to lower disease risk, lower risk of dying early, study finds Drinking enough water is associated with a significantly lower risk of developing chronic diseases, a lower risk of dying early or lower risk of being biologically older than your chronological age, according to a National Institutes of Health study published Monday in the journal eBioMedicine.

Happy New Year from Supporting Seniors! 🥂🎆

As we ring in 2023, we want to say thank you to all of our clients and their families for trusting us to help them find the perfect retirement home. We are grateful for the opportunity to be a part of your journey, to get to know you and share in the excitement of new beginnings!

And to everyone we work alongside with in the communities, health and seniors services in Ottawa - thank you for your dedication and compassion for those you serve! We are excited to continue supporting seniors together in the New Year!

Here's to a healthy, happy, and fulfilling 2023 for all!

Merry Christmas! 🎅🎄 May it be filled with love, laughter, and all the warmth of the holiday season. Wishing you and your loved ones a very happy, healthy, and peaceful holiday!

With all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, don't forget to take a moment to slow down and cherish the simple joys with your loved ones. Happy holidays from all of us at Supporting Seniors!

Introducing our new social series: jokes - the way Grandad used to tell them... 😆

Happy Hanukkah to all those celebrating! May the Festival of Lights bring you joy, warmth, and happiness. 🕎

Did you know the holidays are a great time to visit a retirement residence? 🎄 With beautiful decorations, festive moods and holiday cheer, these residences are truly welcoming. If you’re looking for an introduction to retirement living, we would be pleased to be your guide.

If you're a chocolate-mint lover, check out this smoothie that is sure to put you in the holiday spirit! 😋

Chocolate Peppermint Smoothie This chocolate peppermint smoothie is creamy, chocolatey and perfect for the holidays. It tastes like dessert, but is protein-packed and loaded with healthy ingredients so makes for a great breakfast or post-workout treat.

Christmas is a time for celebrating our relationships with family and friends, filled with nostalgia and sentimentality. Find out why this Christmas may be the time to move away from traditions of splurging on new, box-fresh presents and give your loved ones the gift of the past.

Gifts of Christmas Past: Buy Secondhand to Give Your Loved Ones the Gift of Nostalgia and Imagination Christmas is a period for celebrating our relationships with family and friends – a time filled...

"Our results suggested quite safe and patients with early Alzheimer's disease, and we're hoping that it will prevent patients from progressing into those later and more problematic stages of disease in which they can't take care of themselves."

Alzheimer's vaccine: Nasal spray trial shows promise, researchers say A nasal Alzheimer's vaccine developed in the U.S. is showing early positive results, according to researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Two doctors with decades of experience in gerontology hope their website will be a guide to the way forward for people, both those with dementia and those trying to help them. The Driving and Dementia Roadmap website is organized to guide people through the process of a decision to stop driving, from the perspective of health care providers, family or friends, or the person with dementia. It identifies some of the common signs that driving is impaired, and opens the discussion of the emotional impact of the decision.

Dementia and driving website designed to help with 'emotional and challenging' decision | CBC News Anyone diagnosed with dementia will eventually have to make the decision whether it is safe for them to continue driving, but that inevitability doesn’t make the decision any easier.

Amazing! The Town Square in Sandy Springs, Georgia resembles a 1950s town to help spark memories and elevate moods for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

Unique adult day center resembling a 1950s town opens in Sandy Springs - Rough Draft Atlanta An innovative new adult day center is opening in Sandy Springs. The Town Square facility is the first of its kind in Georgia.

A little over a week after a 15-second video of her went viral, 81-year-old Nola Carpenter can finally retire thanks to the efforts of a 19-year-old TikToker. ...But she's choosing to work over the holidays to help her co-workers out. Congratulations on your retirement, Nola!

TikToker raised $186K so an 81-year-old Walmart worker could retire — but she said she'll stay on to help out over the holidays "When I leave Walmart, " the 20-year-long employee said, "I'm going to miss my customers. They look for me every day."

Why to stop calling them "senior moments" — and how to tell the difference between these "normal" memory lapses and dementia.

How Can You Tell the Difference Between Dementia and 'Normal' Aging? - Being Patient

“This is not a cure by any stretch of the imagination, but if it does slow cognitive decline, it means that for the first time we are modifying the disease,” says Dr. Richard Oakley, head of research at the Alzheimer’s Society. “We need to understand the real-world clinical benefit, but I’ve spoken to people, and where there’s never been excitement, always hesitation, this does look like the real deal. We need to see the data, but everyone is now saying this is the beginning of disease-modifying treatments.”

‘This looks like the real deal’: are we inching closer to a treatment for Alzheimer’s? After years of setbacks, dementia researchers are getting excited about a new antibody drug called lecanemab. No one expects it to stop cognitive decline, but even slowing it would be a breakthrough

“When the staff at my retirement home rescheduled our weekly trip, I got on my motorized scooter and went to the store myself."

The grand prize winner, Vera, is one of 11 children and helped raise her younger siblings. She donated a kidney to her sister and worked as a personal support worker. Her son Trevor says his mother has worked hard all her life and given so much back to her family. We're so happy for you, Vera! Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉

Eastern Ontario great-grandmother, 83, wins $60M Lotto Max jackpot When Vera Page realized she had won the Lotto Max $60 million grand prize, she had a difficult time convincing herself she hit the jackpot.